[foaf-dev] [Fwd: [FriendFeed] Re: FOAF tweaks]

[Julian Bond]

Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de> Fri, 9 May 2008 15:01:25
>mbox_sha1sum is like an “identity fingerprint” that can be tracked 
>across the Web. Users will be surprised that sites publish such a 
>fingerprint.

Which is of course, exactly why it's useful. And no matter how many 
times I say "if you want to keep your identities separate, don't use the 
same identifier, people will still do it.

Back To FriendFeed and sites like them. If it's not mbox_sha1sum, is 
there some other IFP that could be used? If say, they were an OpenID 
consumer, and that was published in the foaf, and further the user used 
the same OpenID for different personas across two websites, we'd be back 
to the same problem again, wouldn't we? Isn't this an argument against 
IFPs and smushing in general?

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